Spelling
Seperated or separated?
Separated is the right spelling. Seperated is a common misspelling of it.
SEPERATED has E where SEPARATED has A.
Why people write SEPERATED
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
There's a rat in separated: sep-A-RAT-ed.
How often SEPARATED is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), SEPERATED appears 33 times for every 1,000 SEPARATED, about once for every 30 correct uses.
Is SEPERATED a word?
No. SEPERATED is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. SEPARATED is in all three and scores 12 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What separated means
verb: To set or keep apart.
For example: "He separated the fighting children"
More words with the same mistake
The wrong vowel:
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